Star Fox: A Time Before
Chapter II
Jose Philipe Mendola
Authors note: the characters reffered to as 'Phyrexians' are not mine. They are borrowed names of Magic: the Gathering. Same goes for Volrath...
(Dedicated to those who hated the first one, and Roy... Because you loved the first one so much.)
'Traveling Through Time Is Like Riding A Camel. The ride May Be Unpleasant, But It Gets You Where You Want To Go.' -Teffari
'C'mon...' Fox said into his intercom 'Falco shared his hidden past, your next Slippy.'
It had come to be, that after admitting to his horrible past, that Slippy was the next to go. Who knew what kind of life the frog had lived... it he was a mysterious creature. Mayby this would shed some light on a dark subject of Slippy's?...
'I dont understand why I have to go next...' Slippy said, sounding kind of hesitant 'Why dont you go now Fox?'
'Because,' said Fox ' I think we should all know about the mysterious Slippy before we get to know me, the newbie, a little better.'
'I dont know...' Slippy said 'Look what happened to Falco...'
Fox looked off to his right side to get a good view of Falco's ship. The cabin lights were not on, but he could see Falco's outline aginst the distant sun. It looked like he was sleeping, but more than likely, he was curled up into a ball, still crying.
'Well... yeah..' Fox said 'But you could'nt have had it THAT bad...'
'I guess not...' Slippy said slowly 'but, promise me you'll stay open- minded...'
'Sure.' Fox said.
'Wilco! Roger that!' Peppy yelled into the intercom. 'Aint NO Phyrexians getting through OUR supply lines!'
'Phyrexians?...' Fox asked himself 'Whatever....'
Falco's voice came over the radio, and he said
'Sure... i'll listen. things cant get any worse for me... I think i'll put on some more black clothes...'
'He's going depressed on us...' Peppy said to a sing-song tune to the other two ships.
'Like i was about to say,' Fox said 'Go ahead Slippy, you deserve the time.'
'Ok...' Said Slippy 'Here goes nothing...'
SLIPPY'S STORY
'Well...' Slippy began 'As long as you guya are keeping an open mind, i'd like to start off by saying I'm not normal.'
'Duh!' Fox said sarcastically.
'Let me finish... i'm not waht you think i am.'
'I think your a frog...' Said Peppy.
'Well, i am, but not a normal one. Ther's a reason i'm big on pollution and destructuion of homeworlds and waterworlds, i was born on one.It was just before the coming of Andross, before he teamed up with Volrath to create their mighty machien empire. Most of Andorss's early machiens ran on radiation as a main power source. In order to make radon in such large quantities, he needed the plants to make them. As all radiation goes, it goes bad after a while. Instead of just burying it like most planets do, he decided to ship it to a nearby world and dump it. Since it was out of the main planet's jurisdiction, what he was doing was legal. He kept dumping it for a few years. On the same planet, millions of gallons a day. It's still going on too, but one day, the radiatio int the water got to a family of frogs... I wish it were not true, but the family of frogs was... well, it was my family.'
'Wait a minute...' Fox said 'Pond frogs dont get much bigger than Falco's compadre' over-there...' Fox thought for a minute, and said to himself 'Again wiht the Phyrexians... is there some block of history i missed?....'
Falco, hearing this blatent insult, started bawling again. Fox, laughing a little, went back to the point.
'So... if that was your family the radiation hit, how did you get to be this size? And that SMART for that matter?...'
'Well,' Slippy began again ' radiation acts as a mutogen. it alters genes and physical appearance in many ways. I was somehow infected when the radon in the water got to me, that i grew to the size as most beings, and my brain developed almost the same way... So... in a way, i guess you caould say that i'm a mutant...'
There was a braif pause. Slippy, personally, expected Peppy and at leat Fox to laugh at the fact of being a mutant. To Slippy's surprise, no one laughed.
'Wow...' Peppy said 'I'v never known a mutant before...'
'Neither have I...' Fox said 'Ok Slippy... keep going.'
This was great! For the first time, Slippy had found someone that did'nt laugh at the fact of mutation! Would they be suo understanding about the other things?... Only one way to find out...
'Well,' Slippy said 'I somehow found my way to a nearby planet, and started looking for something to do with my life. Losing one's parents is'nt easy... I'll let falco confirm that...'
'They never loved me!' Falco cried ' I was the result of adultery! I never even knew my own mother!'
'Shut up Falco!' Peppy yelled. 'You had your chance to talk! Now it's the frog's turn!'
Falco immediatly put a lid on it, fearing to show too much more emotion.
'O....k....' Slippy continued 'Anyway.... I started to look for jobs, even something as simmple as a mechanic. Aparentaly, every one wanted a mutogen with an I.Q of 134... I eventually ended up at STAR Fox Academy for the first time. I was origionally going into Weapons Development. I wanted to be the one that invented the next type of lazer, but i ran into a series of problems on the application i was required to fill out... One of the questions was...' Slippy paused. How to explain this to them?... the only answer was the scientific one. 'Well, have any of you ever heard of 'A- Sexual reproduction'?...'
'Nope.' peppy said without hesitation.
Falco's answer was a series of small sobs, and sniffels. Taken for a 'No', Fox spoke up.
'I think so... something about changing genes or someting..'
'Well, in certain types of frog breeds, when one gender outnumbers the other, some of the frogs actually change sex. No drugs, no fancy knifes, they just do. We are genetically made to do so. Anotehr of Life's mysteries i guess... Well, when the mutogens made contact with me, i was in the middle of... well... A-Sexual reproduction. From one gender to another, I'm not sure which, i was caught in the middle.'
Again, the intercoms were silent for some time. Slippy, hoping for understanding friends, got two confused friends. Only Falco was silent.
'I don't get it...' Peppy said 'So... your not male, and your not female?'
'Correct.' Slippy replied.
'So... you could be considered...' Neutral'?' 'Fox said.
'Yeah. I guess so...' Slippy said.
'In all my years of being a Marine, i'v never heard of a story like that..'
'Peppy...' Fox said 'Your a piolit. Not part of the ground forces. Yu never have been, nor have you EVER been on a boat.'
'Hmm...' Peppy said. I was wondering where i put my helmet and rifle...'
'I dont think he's ok...' Slippy said to Fox.
'Neither do I. Neither do I.... keep going.'
'Well, i thought about it for some time, how i was going to get around the 'gender' question, sure, i could have picked one or another, but then I might have ended up getting hit on by those of the same gender...'
'Hell, YOU dont even know what you are, who cares?' Fox asked.
'It's the PRINCIPAL of the matter. It would have just felt wrong. I mean, i have the vocal cords of a 13 year old girl, and the physical size of a healthy 21 year old frog. just wrong, ya see? Anyway... I filled out the form because of a selection i missed, 'Mutated frog caught in the middle of A-Sexual Reproduction with no one but the Phryexians to blame.' So I filled that one in. It went well for me all of freshmen year. I had a lot of good friends early in the year, and more and more after that. I even went to parties with them.'
'Unlike our buddy Falco, it seems like you had a good time in Basic Training. If not for us, Falco might not ahve any friends at all...'
Falco, hearing this, was thrown a little further into depression. Crying quietly now, he said nothing.
'Well,' Slippy said 'School was going well, and advanced Nuclear Fusion was my favorite class to be in. I may not ahve been accepted into the Weapons Creation corse... but it was just as well. I was enjoying myself in all my classes. It was not until junior year in school that things got a little more interesting. Five weeks into the ney school year, someone was transferred in. She was smart. Very Smart, and sarcastic come to think of it... she was in one or two of my advanced classes, and i'd say that we got to know eachother fairly well. In fact, Falco mentioned her earlier. Katt, i think...'
'Katt!?' Falco suddenly yelled. 'Katt! I'm here! I love you! I'v never gotten a chance to tell until now! I LOVE YOU KATT!......' Falco had fallen silent again.
'Wow...' Fox said. 'that was quite random....'
'Yeah...' Slippy said. 'Anyway..... she was the nicest person. It did'nt take her long, I think on week, to start talking about a special someone in the school. Well, he sounded like a nice guy, Never did catch a name... but anyway... we got along fairly well. We'd usually ahve lunch toghther, and she would sometime say that she had a horrible feeling of being follow at school... i never did understand that. we were good friends until gradguation. After that, we kinda lost contact... I still remember the last time i saw her too... It was the night of gradguation, at a party actually. I was talking to her for a while there. She said something about her boyfriend not keeping his promise, and that he was out doing sometihing...'
'Someone.' Fox said aloud. 'I mean.... something?' Whew... that was close....
'Yeah...'Slippy said. 'Well, i went up to grab a drink and meet some other friends, when i was almost out of the room, I just remembered that i was going to tell her some thing, and when i turned around, she was not on the couch any more, but heading out of of the doors to another part of the house. I said a prayer of luck to her, hoping that she had a good life, and went on my way.'
'Wow...' said Peppy 'sounds like you had a long night...'
'Yeah. I did. Anyway, it was not long after gradguation that i got standing orders to report to the Starport to be transferred to another outfit, where i was to become a lead scientist, or a Squadron scanner. By the looks of it, i became a scanner. So, here i am today, confused about my sex as ever, and i still have no clue as to what happened to her...'
'That's right..' Fox said to himself 'Slippy does'nt know about the run in With KAtt we had a few months ago..'
'Well, with that in the past, i can only hope for a better tommrow. And that, friends, is Slippy's story thus far.'
'Friends my ass!' Falco suddenly said 'I hate you! You think your so much bette rthan we are... just because you KNEW your parnets... just because they LOVED you! You make me sick!'
'Well,' Slippy said, not sounding too worked up over this 'let's hope your not as sick as Katt was when she saw your package.'
Falco, suffering from another penis joke, broke down in tears again, no to anyone's surprise, and started repeating Katt's name, followed by 'I'm so sorry, Katt.'
'Well,' Fox said ' Slippy, you certainly have led an interesting, hardship filled life, and i respect you for that.'
'As do I.' Peppy chirruped in.
'Thanks guys...' Slippy said. 'thanks for understanding. With that out of the way... who's next?'
After a few minutes of silence, except for Falco's crying (Again), Fox Finally said,
'I am.'
To readers: Well, hoped you like it. After another ton of shots at Falco, still, no remorse for the 'little guys' (Pun intended). You read it, now review it. you ahve the RIGHT to be heard. Next up, Fox's Story.Stay tuned.
-Jose
Chapter II
Jose Philipe Mendola
Authors note: the characters reffered to as 'Phyrexians' are not mine. They are borrowed names of Magic: the Gathering. Same goes for Volrath...
(Dedicated to those who hated the first one, and Roy... Because you loved the first one so much.)
'Traveling Through Time Is Like Riding A Camel. The ride May Be Unpleasant, But It Gets You Where You Want To Go.' -Teffari
'C'mon...' Fox said into his intercom 'Falco shared his hidden past, your next Slippy.'
It had come to be, that after admitting to his horrible past, that Slippy was the next to go. Who knew what kind of life the frog had lived... it he was a mysterious creature. Mayby this would shed some light on a dark subject of Slippy's?...
'I dont understand why I have to go next...' Slippy said, sounding kind of hesitant 'Why dont you go now Fox?'
'Because,' said Fox ' I think we should all know about the mysterious Slippy before we get to know me, the newbie, a little better.'
'I dont know...' Slippy said 'Look what happened to Falco...'
Fox looked off to his right side to get a good view of Falco's ship. The cabin lights were not on, but he could see Falco's outline aginst the distant sun. It looked like he was sleeping, but more than likely, he was curled up into a ball, still crying.
'Well... yeah..' Fox said 'But you could'nt have had it THAT bad...'
'I guess not...' Slippy said slowly 'but, promise me you'll stay open- minded...'
'Sure.' Fox said.
'Wilco! Roger that!' Peppy yelled into the intercom. 'Aint NO Phyrexians getting through OUR supply lines!'
'Phyrexians?...' Fox asked himself 'Whatever....'
Falco's voice came over the radio, and he said
'Sure... i'll listen. things cant get any worse for me... I think i'll put on some more black clothes...'
'He's going depressed on us...' Peppy said to a sing-song tune to the other two ships.
'Like i was about to say,' Fox said 'Go ahead Slippy, you deserve the time.'
'Ok...' Said Slippy 'Here goes nothing...'
SLIPPY'S STORY
'Well...' Slippy began 'As long as you guya are keeping an open mind, i'd like to start off by saying I'm not normal.'
'Duh!' Fox said sarcastically.
'Let me finish... i'm not waht you think i am.'
'I think your a frog...' Said Peppy.
'Well, i am, but not a normal one. Ther's a reason i'm big on pollution and destructuion of homeworlds and waterworlds, i was born on one.It was just before the coming of Andross, before he teamed up with Volrath to create their mighty machien empire. Most of Andorss's early machiens ran on radiation as a main power source. In order to make radon in such large quantities, he needed the plants to make them. As all radiation goes, it goes bad after a while. Instead of just burying it like most planets do, he decided to ship it to a nearby world and dump it. Since it was out of the main planet's jurisdiction, what he was doing was legal. He kept dumping it for a few years. On the same planet, millions of gallons a day. It's still going on too, but one day, the radiatio int the water got to a family of frogs... I wish it were not true, but the family of frogs was... well, it was my family.'
'Wait a minute...' Fox said 'Pond frogs dont get much bigger than Falco's compadre' over-there...' Fox thought for a minute, and said to himself 'Again wiht the Phyrexians... is there some block of history i missed?....'
Falco, hearing this blatent insult, started bawling again. Fox, laughing a little, went back to the point.
'So... if that was your family the radiation hit, how did you get to be this size? And that SMART for that matter?...'
'Well,' Slippy began again ' radiation acts as a mutogen. it alters genes and physical appearance in many ways. I was somehow infected when the radon in the water got to me, that i grew to the size as most beings, and my brain developed almost the same way... So... in a way, i guess you caould say that i'm a mutant...'
There was a braif pause. Slippy, personally, expected Peppy and at leat Fox to laugh at the fact of being a mutant. To Slippy's surprise, no one laughed.
'Wow...' Peppy said 'I'v never known a mutant before...'
'Neither have I...' Fox said 'Ok Slippy... keep going.'
This was great! For the first time, Slippy had found someone that did'nt laugh at the fact of mutation! Would they be suo understanding about the other things?... Only one way to find out...
'Well,' Slippy said 'I somehow found my way to a nearby planet, and started looking for something to do with my life. Losing one's parents is'nt easy... I'll let falco confirm that...'
'They never loved me!' Falco cried ' I was the result of adultery! I never even knew my own mother!'
'Shut up Falco!' Peppy yelled. 'You had your chance to talk! Now it's the frog's turn!'
Falco immediatly put a lid on it, fearing to show too much more emotion.
'O....k....' Slippy continued 'Anyway.... I started to look for jobs, even something as simmple as a mechanic. Aparentaly, every one wanted a mutogen with an I.Q of 134... I eventually ended up at STAR Fox Academy for the first time. I was origionally going into Weapons Development. I wanted to be the one that invented the next type of lazer, but i ran into a series of problems on the application i was required to fill out... One of the questions was...' Slippy paused. How to explain this to them?... the only answer was the scientific one. 'Well, have any of you ever heard of 'A- Sexual reproduction'?...'
'Nope.' peppy said without hesitation.
Falco's answer was a series of small sobs, and sniffels. Taken for a 'No', Fox spoke up.
'I think so... something about changing genes or someting..'
'Well, in certain types of frog breeds, when one gender outnumbers the other, some of the frogs actually change sex. No drugs, no fancy knifes, they just do. We are genetically made to do so. Anotehr of Life's mysteries i guess... Well, when the mutogens made contact with me, i was in the middle of... well... A-Sexual reproduction. From one gender to another, I'm not sure which, i was caught in the middle.'
Again, the intercoms were silent for some time. Slippy, hoping for understanding friends, got two confused friends. Only Falco was silent.
'I don't get it...' Peppy said 'So... your not male, and your not female?'
'Correct.' Slippy replied.
'So... you could be considered...' Neutral'?' 'Fox said.
'Yeah. I guess so...' Slippy said.
'In all my years of being a Marine, i'v never heard of a story like that..'
'Peppy...' Fox said 'Your a piolit. Not part of the ground forces. Yu never have been, nor have you EVER been on a boat.'
'Hmm...' Peppy said. I was wondering where i put my helmet and rifle...'
'I dont think he's ok...' Slippy said to Fox.
'Neither do I. Neither do I.... keep going.'
'Well, i thought about it for some time, how i was going to get around the 'gender' question, sure, i could have picked one or another, but then I might have ended up getting hit on by those of the same gender...'
'Hell, YOU dont even know what you are, who cares?' Fox asked.
'It's the PRINCIPAL of the matter. It would have just felt wrong. I mean, i have the vocal cords of a 13 year old girl, and the physical size of a healthy 21 year old frog. just wrong, ya see? Anyway... I filled out the form because of a selection i missed, 'Mutated frog caught in the middle of A-Sexual Reproduction with no one but the Phryexians to blame.' So I filled that one in. It went well for me all of freshmen year. I had a lot of good friends early in the year, and more and more after that. I even went to parties with them.'
'Unlike our buddy Falco, it seems like you had a good time in Basic Training. If not for us, Falco might not ahve any friends at all...'
Falco, hearing this, was thrown a little further into depression. Crying quietly now, he said nothing.
'Well,' Slippy said 'School was going well, and advanced Nuclear Fusion was my favorite class to be in. I may not ahve been accepted into the Weapons Creation corse... but it was just as well. I was enjoying myself in all my classes. It was not until junior year in school that things got a little more interesting. Five weeks into the ney school year, someone was transferred in. She was smart. Very Smart, and sarcastic come to think of it... she was in one or two of my advanced classes, and i'd say that we got to know eachother fairly well. In fact, Falco mentioned her earlier. Katt, i think...'
'Katt!?' Falco suddenly yelled. 'Katt! I'm here! I love you! I'v never gotten a chance to tell until now! I LOVE YOU KATT!......' Falco had fallen silent again.
'Wow...' Fox said. 'that was quite random....'
'Yeah...' Slippy said. 'Anyway..... she was the nicest person. It did'nt take her long, I think on week, to start talking about a special someone in the school. Well, he sounded like a nice guy, Never did catch a name... but anyway... we got along fairly well. We'd usually ahve lunch toghther, and she would sometime say that she had a horrible feeling of being follow at school... i never did understand that. we were good friends until gradguation. After that, we kinda lost contact... I still remember the last time i saw her too... It was the night of gradguation, at a party actually. I was talking to her for a while there. She said something about her boyfriend not keeping his promise, and that he was out doing sometihing...'
'Someone.' Fox said aloud. 'I mean.... something?' Whew... that was close....
'Yeah...'Slippy said. 'Well, i went up to grab a drink and meet some other friends, when i was almost out of the room, I just remembered that i was going to tell her some thing, and when i turned around, she was not on the couch any more, but heading out of of the doors to another part of the house. I said a prayer of luck to her, hoping that she had a good life, and went on my way.'
'Wow...' said Peppy 'sounds like you had a long night...'
'Yeah. I did. Anyway, it was not long after gradguation that i got standing orders to report to the Starport to be transferred to another outfit, where i was to become a lead scientist, or a Squadron scanner. By the looks of it, i became a scanner. So, here i am today, confused about my sex as ever, and i still have no clue as to what happened to her...'
'That's right..' Fox said to himself 'Slippy does'nt know about the run in With KAtt we had a few months ago..'
'Well, with that in the past, i can only hope for a better tommrow. And that, friends, is Slippy's story thus far.'
'Friends my ass!' Falco suddenly said 'I hate you! You think your so much bette rthan we are... just because you KNEW your parnets... just because they LOVED you! You make me sick!'
'Well,' Slippy said, not sounding too worked up over this 'let's hope your not as sick as Katt was when she saw your package.'
Falco, suffering from another penis joke, broke down in tears again, no to anyone's surprise, and started repeating Katt's name, followed by 'I'm so sorry, Katt.'
'Well,' Fox said ' Slippy, you certainly have led an interesting, hardship filled life, and i respect you for that.'
'As do I.' Peppy chirruped in.
'Thanks guys...' Slippy said. 'thanks for understanding. With that out of the way... who's next?'
After a few minutes of silence, except for Falco's crying (Again), Fox Finally said,
'I am.'
To readers: Well, hoped you like it. After another ton of shots at Falco, still, no remorse for the 'little guys' (Pun intended). You read it, now review it. you ahve the RIGHT to be heard. Next up, Fox's Story.Stay tuned.
-Jose